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Four killed as quake rocks Pakistan

Haris Darvesh in Karachi

At least four people, including a four-year-old girl, are reported to have been killed and six others were injured on Friday when an earthquake struck many cities in Pakistan, doctors and officials said.

Two people died in the Pakistani city of Hyderabad when a three-storey building collapsed. "We are still measuring the scale of the quake but it continued for around 12 seconds at 08:40 PST (03:40 GMT)," meteorological official Abdul Rasheed said.

Reports on Pakistani television say the quake measured 6.2 on the Richter Scale and was felt throughout the country, including the major cities of Lahore, Karachi and Peshawar.

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